Kobe and Gianna Bryant Statue Erected at Crash Site on 2nd Anniversary of Their Death
etonline.comKobe and Gianna Bryant were memorialized in art on the two-year anniversary of their death. On Wednesday, artist Dan Medina erected a 160-pound bronze statue of the late Lakers legend and his 13-year-old daughter, at the site of thehelicopter crash that killed them and seven others on Jan.
26. 2020.The statue features the basketball star – wearing his number 24 Lakers jersey -- with his arm wrapped around his 13-year-old daughter’s shoulder.
Gianna rocks her basketball uniform with the number 8. Both Kobe and his daughter are smiling. Across the front of the statue is the saying, “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever," along with the names of the seven other victims of the crash, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, Alyssa Altobelli, Christina Mauser, Sarah Chester, Payton Chester and pilot Ara Zobayan.
Medina told that the statue was only temporary, and that he planned to remove it at sundown. The artist also added that he hoped the city would allow him to do a more permanent tribute one day.
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